Béla Zsitnik (17 December 1924 – 12 January 2019) was a Hungarian rower who competed in the

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh ...

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1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

Early life

He was born in

Győr Győr ( , ; german: Raab, links=no; names in other languages) is the main city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron County and Western Transdanubia region, and – halfway between Budapest and Vienna – situated on one of t ...

and is the father of Béla Zsitnik Jr. In 1948 he was a crew member of the Hungarian boat which won the bronze in the coxed pairs event. Four years later he was eliminated with the Hungarian boat in the semi-final repechage of the eight competition. At the 1960 Games he was part of the Hungarian boat which was eliminated in the repechage of the coxless four event.Zsitnik Béla is elment!

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* * * 1924 births 2019 deaths Hungarian male rowers Olympic rowers for Hungary Rowers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Győr {{Hungary-Olympic-medalist-stub